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        <p>In the Berkeley DB 4.2 release, replication environments must be specifically
initialized by any process that will ever do anything other than open
databases in read-only mode (that is, any process which might call any
of the Berkeley DB replication interfaces or modify databases).  This
initialization is done when the replication database environment handle
is opened, by specifying the <a href="../api_reference/C/envopen.html#envopen_DB_INIT_REP" class="olink">DB_INIT_REP</a> flag to the
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        <p>All of the <a href="../api_reference/C/db.html" class="olink">DB</a> object methods may now return
<code class="literal">DB_REP_HANDLE_DEAD</code> when a replication client changes masters.
When this happens the <a href="../api_reference/C/db.html" class="olink">DB</a> handle is no longer able to be used and
the application must close the handle using the <a href="../api_reference/C/dbclose.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;close()</a> method and
open a new handle.  This new return value is returned when a client
unrolls a transaction in order to synchronize with the new master.
Otherwise, if the application was permitted to use the original handle,
it's possible the handle might attempt to access nonexistent resources.</p>
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        <p>The <a href="../api_reference/C/repmessage.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_process_message()</a> method has new return values and an log sequence
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